Yes, it can happen. Population choke points drive rapid evolution.

The value humanity gets from that is orders of magnitude greater

Freedom of expression means that you are free from interference from the state. Never mind that we live in a de facto corporatocracy, freedom of expression does not prevent you from being silenced by private enterprise.

It sucks but sometimes it’s a pleasant change of circumstances to see the USA fucking itself, first. We’ve been dying for decades.

“political”

okay

The only podcaster I listen to is John Goblikon. And whatever podcaster he is interviewing. And whatever podcaster has him as a guest the next week.

Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia-97sBw85g

<3!!

Trump hates trans people the same way Trump is a Christian.

I really liked Homeworld back in the day. Haven’t tried any of the newer ones.

I am just getting into Beyond All Reason and I am absolutely taken by it

pro gamers disagree.

Or just fucking stop consuming like idiots and assholes. You really think shooting CEOs in the street is going to change anything for the better without changing the bad behaviour that those CEOs are still salivating and precumming at the thought of exploiting??

America is not “The United States” in the context of naming global features on a map. We have two continents call that, for example.

You can be biologically male or female either with or without the Y chromosome. Chromosomes do not determine sex. The mother’s hormone expressions during gestation do. They are informed by the child’s chromosomes, but do not always correspond.

LPC and CPC work for the same people, and it’s not you.

the carbon tax, which is going up in April

And also is going to remain a net zero, with most of the people you are talking to receiving positive income from it. Cry me a river.

Psychology, advertising, and manipulation grow more sophisticated every year, but the voter does not change.

I got it about a year ago and I’ve been playing it again recently. It’s okay.

I’m super frustrated that for some reason, Sid Meyer’s SimGolf doesn’t run on any emulation or modern hardware. It was just a friggin windows 95 game!! I have no idea what’s so special about it.

Space-click is such a nice feature. I stopped wishing I could edit queues once I found it.